Focus

Coming off of a week with Covid I am determined to find and practice my focus for the first quarter. I like ideas, coming up with ideas, and even running scenarios about those ideas in my head… however, I often lack the focus to pull the ideas together. This is especially true when the everyday business of real estate and our team has to continue.

So the challenge becomes to find my focus on the everyday things and really get intentional about knocking out those must-do activities while also indulging myself with the ideas running through my head in a controlled way.

Currently, I have a great morning must-do list for the office. These are the items that have to happen daily to move the needle forward in our business. They include reviewing the daily team reports, checking in with everyone on my personal pipeline, reviewing the status of each pending transaction, completing our database tasks, and doing one thing for each of our 4 lead levers we are concentrating on this year. After those are done THEN I can catch up on emails, texts, and calls. This is the type of focus that truly helps the way my brain can quickly lose focus. I have a list of all of this written out so that when I start to wander I can look at it and bring myself back on track.

So now the challenge for me becomes finding and staying on the everyday focus and avoiding burnout by allowing time for my ideas. I’ve decided to calendar in whitespace. 2 hours per week broken up that will allow me to dive in a bit more on some ideas and maybe even actually bring them forward into the business(es) to grow.

Finding time for white space has always seemed like a great but unrealistic idea to me, however, I’m starting to realize it’s going to be a must to keep focus and growing and have some fun with the ideas running through my head.